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Newspaper Page Texto o u MedfoMd0 MmiT Tmbune The Weather Prediction Rain Maximum yesterday OH Minimum today 40 Precipitation 12 Weather Year Ago Maximum Minimum D.lh Twentieth Year. WtfHy Kilty-third Ve.a MTCDF0RD9 OHF.nON, THURSDAY, APRTfe 16, NO. 22 CREW m 'RUNAWAY' BLIMP-NEA DEATH S.O.S. SENT T R-33 First Officer and Twenty Men Carried to Sea When Eng lish Dirigible Breaks Away in Terrific Storm Nose of Ship Smashed Naval Sloop Dispatched to Rescue AMKTEHIMM, April 16. At 7:15 o'clock tonight the folio wins message wns picked up from the steamship Amazon Mam: "All stations Htuiid by. English airship K-33 S.O.S. Clear at oneo." BRDADCAS BOM IjON'DOX, April l. (By As- eoclatcd Press.) The wireless station at I) Ism, Norfolk, Inter cepted a radio message from the K-33 Khortly nfter no veil o'clock tonight In which the dirigible called for help and said that the nose of the Hhlp had been torn awuy when It broke loose from the mooring must at Pulham this morning;. Tho news that the H-33 had broken away was tho greatest airship sensa tion in England since the fatal explo sion aboard tho R-38 in 1921 when the dirigible built to become tho ZR-2 of tho United States air fleet was wrecked during a trial flight near . Hull with tho loss of forty-six lives, J Including sixteen Americans.. When ' -tho R-33 brolto loose from her moor ing mast today there was a prolonged ripping sound. A few moments later tho big air vessel sped past llarleston low in the air and almost scraped the tops of farm houses as It swept along helplessly In tho gale. For forty minutes the R-33 was above Port Lowestoft, thirty miles from Pulham, battling bravely against the gale but 'still in danger and dipping eastward with sudden shifts of the winds. Hugo crowds assembled on the shore to watch the struggle. Slowly, as the engines began to turn, tho ship took an even keel. Tho R-33 was commanded by its first officer. Flight Lieutenant R. S. Booth, and twenty men of the regular crew of 28 were aboard. The wind has veered from a wes terly direction to the northwest and has slightly decreased in the neigh borhood of the ship which now Is about 75 miles northwest of Amster dam. The wind has definitely de creased In the north of Kngland. The British naval sloop Godetia is follow ing the dirigible. It was officially stated that no rolatlves of members of the crew were on board. This is denial of a report that when tho R-33 broke away relatives of some of her crew were on the airship and had been carried off with her. Passing of the Early Pioneer noon river. Ore.. April 16. t aken suddenly ill from an attack t blood poisoning late yesterday vnoon. Charles A. Bell. 65, and for fortv vears a resident of Hood River, died soon after being taken to a hospital here. He did not ie gain consciousness and physicians Bay they are unable to determine the cause of his sudden demise. Mr. Bell was a native of New Brunswick. Canada, and whs proprie tor or the Mount Hood hotel here. He is survived by his widow, one son, Fred H. Bell of Hood River, ( brother, George A. Bell, and one sis ter, Mrs. Kate Young, both of whom reside at New Brunswick. Funeral services will be held to morrow afternoon. WOMAN RACE TRACK PLUNGER GETS $7,365 VERDICT NEW YORK. April lfi. At the race track Mrs. Ada O. Wells Ins; nil her money and all she could g"l from rela tives, but In a legal action she has re covered $7365 frcn Phillip S. Abra- , hams the bookmaker, who she said, took Tier bets. A Jury's verdict, directed by Su preme Court Just'ce Proskauer was based upon a section of the penal law - providing that a person who low1. r money to a bookmaker can recover the "Babe" Ruth to Be Operated Upon As 'Result of Illness NEW YORK. April 10. Bubo Ruth, nil influenza patient nt St. Vincent's hospital will bo operated on tomorrow for tho relief of abscesses which have 4 developed -as a rOBUlt of his weakened physical condition. ' E HIT BY TORNADO I Genuine Twister Sweeps Over Condon and Pendleton Dis tricts Homes Destroyed, Barns Lifted in Air, But No Fatalities Reported. CONDON, Ore., April 3 6. Damage estimated between $8000 and $10,000 was caused by a tornado which struck Condon and surrounding coun try late yesterday. Tho storm swept in from the southwest and after dam aging buildings in the southwestern part of town jumped to tho northeast ern section, whero further damugo was done. Two high school students. Art Mor gan and Thomas Westcott, wero cut by flying glass when the roof of tho school house was torn off by the storm. - ' ' ' ' ' , - Tho county machine shop and the warehouse of tho Arlington Lumber company were wrecked, tho combined loss to these two plants amounting to about $G000. A dozen barns and garages in Con don wero destroyed and many such buildings were wrecked in tho country nearby. Fragments of a barn dropped nn the roof of the Congregational par sonage, knocking it in. Many windows in town were broken. PENDLETON, Ore., April 16. Actual damage of approximately $5000 was done yesterday in the high wind that visited Umatilla county and gave people hero the nearest thing to a corn belt tornado that this part of tho west has ever experienced. Two warehouses were wrecked, one at Barnhart, ond another at Fulton, Innumerable trees, big and little, wero blown over, many small build ings were wrecked and some damage to telephone and power lines was done. In some places the wind was merely Btrong and came In a direct line, but in other spots tho currents apparently camo from opposite 'dl rectlons and resulted in a "twister" that lifted buildings and played other freakish tricks. LA GRANDE, Ore.. April 16. LaOrande escaped a disastrous wind storm yesterday owing to the fact that it lies protected by hills, nc cording to persons who declared they saw two Btorms, ono sweeping from north to south, and tho other east to west, meet high above tho city with terrific force. The strong wind toppled over several children at the Central grammar school, Ono boy was blown against the building and was slightly bruised. No ono wan seriously hurt. Trees were blown down in tho hills. Tho storm was accompanied by n roar peculiar to storms in the mid-west, one resident asserted. He declared his first In stinct was to hunt a cellar. KLAMATH FALLS, Ore., April 16 Klamath Falls this afternoon was In the throes of a severe sand storm . The south wind attained high ve locity shortly before tho noon hour and swept before R an ever-spreading cloud of fine sand which fell upon the streets here. Continued on Pag 81x FROM A N. Y. amount nf the losses. Mrs. Wells sued for $11.0rn nnd testifier that her losses w)re much more, but that she had destroyed her checks for the amount in excess of the sum for which she sued. She said she met Abra hams at Belmont Park In 1921 and bet tflth him for two years on 1S2 races. She testified that she lost all her own money and obtained funds from relatives at Newport News, Va only to see that vanish also. ASTERN OREGON DAMAGE I BEN D0RR1S KICKED OUT BY PIERCE Democratic Member of State Game Commission Is Dis charged By Governor Ac tion Result of Personal Feud Corvallis Man Gets Place Sportsmen Aroused. SALEM. Ore.. April 16. Political differences and a breach In friendship that has been widening since early In the late legislative session caused Gov ernor Pierce yesterday to oust Ben F. Dorris of Eugene from the state game commission. The governor appoint ed M. H. Bauer of Corvallis to fill the vacancy. Tho schism between Dorris and the governor was. started when Dorris early In the legislative session is said to have showed himself In favor of taking the nppointment of fish and game commlsisons out of the hands of the governor and placing them In the hands of the state board of control. The governor yesterday afternoon called Dorris by telephone at Eugene and requested him to send in his resig nation by letter. Dorirs replied that he wanted some time to consider the matter, whereupon tho governor said he wanted to take action immediately and that he would remove Dorris with out waiting for his resignation. Dorris became a member of the commission by appointment of Pierce Juno 18, 1923, and his term would have oxplred February'' 20, 1028. Bauer, his successor, Is a creamery man at Corvallis, and Is said to bo ac tive in various game organizations of the state. , Confers with Advisors Before deciding upon tho removal of Dorris, the governor conferred at some length- with his advisers. Btate Insurance Commissioner Will Moore, Accident Commissioner Dlllard Elkins and Milton A. Miller. Dorris, the ousted commltislnncr, is prominently connected with tho Amer ican Legion and served overseas dur ing the war, where he was seriously wounded. The governor refused to comment on the ouster, hut the breach between the two men has been ob vious for many months. One thing that Is believed to have caused the split is -Dorris' friendly at titude toward Charles Hall of Marsh field, whom Dorris Is said to favor for governor, rather than again support leree should the latter again be the nominee of Dorris' own party. Dorris was nlfro opposed to'tho "tith ing hill" of the last legislature which includes the game commission among tho state activities that are required to pay ten per cent o fthelr proceeds Into the state general fund. Dorris also is said to have resented a sug gestlon In the governor's message that the game commission be removed from politics by being transferred to the stnto agricultural college. , Dorris Says Mttlo EUGENE, Ore., April 16. "The Lord glveth and the Lord taketh away," was the statement of Ben F. Dorris.-of Eugene, former member of tho state game commlssloni who was removed from the office yesterday by Governor Walter M. Pierce, when questioned concerning tho affair. Be yond this, ho would say little. His only concern, ho declared, wns for the future of tho game propaga tion system. Oregon has Invested a groat deal In game propagation during the four years the commissslon has been functioning, he said, and he ox- pressed the- hopo this money would not bo wasted by changes In the per sonnel or system that might result fro mmaklng a "political football of the commisslson." Governor iPerce, he said, called him yesterday on tho telephone and asked him for. his resignation, saying that there was a growing lack of harmony between Mr. Dorris and the executive. The commisisoner expressed his sur prise and asked for a few hours time that he might consult with friends, he said. "The governor did not seem to wish him to wait, so Informed me that he was mailing a dismissal," Mr. Dorris said. tV On mo PrnlorHvo asinAlutlnn astounded today on learning of Gov- nur rieree b hcuoh in removing en Dorris of Eucene from tho state cam commission. Inasmucff as Mr. Dorris Is very section It Is quite probable that t matter will be given considerable d mwinn at trtnfo-hf 'a onn,,n t U,. of the game protective association the Hotel Med ford, which hecln 1:30 p. m. Mr. Dorris has attended these banquets ere for years. tin, IntunH aH Tn L.Uk! V... (Continued on Page Biz) Construction Begins on Buildings for Sesqui-Centennial Exposition Construction "of tlie buil'dings the Sesqui-Ccntcnninl exposition in JD2G, has been begun, and plans are being made for a total of 40,000,000 visitors, f W. Free land Kendrick, the mayor (left) is head of the citizens'. committee,'" and David C. Collier (right) is director-general of the exposition. Also shown is Independence Hall, around-which manjof the ex position crcnts-will center. 0; S. A. AIRSHIP BREAKS RUDDER AND RUNS AWAY Big Scott Field Airship i Drifts Helplessly Across Illinois As Rescuers Pursue in Motor Cars Attempts to Land Fail. BLACK WALNUT, Mo.. April 16. Tho TC-3 and Us crew of seven land ed here safely lato today after drift ing with the air currents across the Mississippi and Missouri rivers from Caseyville, 111., where tho shlp suf fered a mishap to the steering appa ratus. BELLEVILLE, III., April lfi. The TC-3, a big Scott field airship with a crew of seven suffered a mishap to its steering apparatus whllo over Caseyville, ill., this afternoon and was forced to drift with the nir cur rents like a free balloon. Tho craft drifted over Granlto City, ill., about 1:4 5 p.m., then crossed tho Mississippi river, accord ing to reports reaching Scott field and it was believed the wind might carry it to Lambert-St. Louis field at Brldgeton, Mo., where a landing might bo effected. Immediate hopo of landing tho ship nt Lamhert-Ht. Louis was lost when the craft passed bear Floris sant, Mo., and continued north ovor the Mlsslurl river about 12:30 p. m. It wss then about thirty miles north of Caseyville, HI., where tho acci dent occurred. Continuing a northwesterly course tho ship recrossed tho Mississippi river and was sighted at Grafton. Ill at 3:10 p. m. ? Men from Lambcrt-8t. Louis field hurried in pursuit of the airship fn automobiles. It was seen tho 'ship sometimes dropped towards the earth but seemingly could not flnlrih the effort to land -and would rise high again. Daily Report on the Crime Wave KLAMATH FALLS. Ore., April 16 Expert safe-blowers last night blow open the safe In tho office of the Big Basin Lumber company and looted the strong bos of Its money contents. Off b l;ils "f the mmpnny declined to make public the lows, al though they said It was a srnal amount. The yeggs are believed to be the same who have blown open three other safes here during the past two weeks. Police and sheriff's depu-yfr w; ties have been unable to obtain anyi clues. for Philadelphia's world's fair. BASEBALL SCORES American. At Philadelphia R. H. E Boston t , . . .3 8 : Philadelphia .7 "13 BntturloH: Kalllo, Ross and Plci nlel); Rommel and Cochrane, At St. Louis R. H. E Cleveland 2 4 l St. Louis '. . .1 6 Batteries: Uhlo and Myatt; Van glldor and Ixon. At Detroit R. H. E. Chicago rf 4 7 Detroit ; 2 6 1 Batteries: Fabor and Schalk Colllnsnnd Woodall. National Leagu. At Boston R. T New York ( 8 1 Boston 1 Bcott and Snyder; Cooney, Namara, 'Benton and Gibson. At Brooklyn R. H. E Philadelphia 8 12 Brooklyn l 6 Mitchell nnd Hcnlino; Rush, Rob orts, Thormahlln, Osborno nnd Tay lor. CHICAGO. April 16. Gabby Hart nett of tho Chicago Cubs cracked out two home runs in the fifth and. sixth Innings In tho game against the Pittsburg Pirates today. One man wns on base when ho hit the first homer off Kremer, Babe Adams was pn tho mound when ho knocked tho other circuit clout. Wall Street Report NJ5W YORK, April 16. Tho clos ln was Irregular. Weakness of high priced specialties was tho outstand ing fealuro of tha lato trading. United .States Cast Iron I'lpo breuklng 134 points to IBB, Commercial Hnlvcntn 11 dropping 4 points and Oenoral Eloc trlct 214. , Prlco movements In today's stock markot lacked uniformity. Oolls, su gar, copper and steel shares turned reactionary on . unfavorable trade news. Hulllsh' demonstrations were successfully conducted however. In tho Maxwell, Wlllqs Overland and Nash Motor issues, nil of which at tained new peak prices for tho year. Totnl sales approximated 1,350,000 shares. Old Stern-Wheeler On Klamath Lake Goes Up in Smoke KLAMATH FALLS. Ore., April 16. Klre early this afternoon claimed the old stern wheeler "WInema." landmark of the early f pioneer days of Klamath county and took with It a dock and ! wnrcMhouHft on th short' of up- per Klnrnath bike at Whipping- ton. The old boat censed active 4 service on Klamath lake and has since been used as a dwelling. Itwa owned by John Totten and 4 as used by Steven Mead. r Explode Bomb During Cathedral Funeral; Many People Killed SOFIA, Bulgaria, April 10. (Hy tho Associated Press) Many porsons wero klllod and Injured today by the explosion 4 r of an infernal maehlno In tho -r cathedral during t h e funeral ! services for General OeorKhteff, who was murdored Tuesday. Tho cathedral In which tho services wero being hold w'as the Bvonta Madella. Tho explo- slon of tho bomb killed sevo- rnl persons and wounded many others, but tho Rovernmental 4 ministers who wero prosont wero unharmed. L ELECTION SET 5TH School Board Follows Sugges tions of Eugene Ex''erts and Decides to Have Two Elec tions and Offer Two Sites. Tho school board, after months of Investigation, has finally Issued a call for a special election to vote bonds for a new high school site, and build ing, to bo held May 6 next. This election Is only for tho pur pose 'of voting $185,000 In bontlH for the purchuHo of a site, and for build ing tho first unit of a proposed $300, 000 high school building, but another special election will be held probably ii woek biter. May Jli, for tho selec tion of a slto, at which nt leuat two sites will bo submitted. Only proporty owners can nolo at tho bond election, but at tho site olec tion all qualified voters of tho city can voto. In holding two special elections tho board Is following out the recommen dation of tho U. of O. administration experts,, who had spont tho forepart of this weok hero in looking ovor tho situation. The formal report of these exports relating to proposed sites, Is expected here before the ond of tho week, and may come tonight. ' Tho experts ad vised that tho bonds bo voted first, and after that the voters select tho slto. Tho experts also almost unanim ously coincided with tho board's plans for a building to cost $300,000. and also agreed that the bond issue be for $186,000, altho the board could bond for about $207,000 at tho coming special election. In the opinion of the board and tho experts It would not be wise to bond for the full amount of $207,000, be cause of the grado school situation, which may rcqulro the expenditure of a considerable sum before crowded room relief Is furnished by the com pletion of tho new high Behool unit. Therefore $22,000 is held back to be voted for bonds for tho graded schools situation, In caso such action is found necossnry. Tho special election of May 6 will be held at the high school building between tho hours of 2 p. m. and 7 p. m. " Death Toll of the Automobile YANKTON, H. D., April 10. Two women and a child wore burned to death and another woman was In jured today when their automobile plunged from tho highway noar Horosford, overturned and burst into flames. Tho dead, reports roeolved hero said, are Airs. H. Nevada Hereford of Aberdeen. Wash.; Miss Dnreen Fin negan, Yankton, and David Flnne Ban. three years old. Mrs. I?. M. Flnnegan, daughter of Mrs. Horo ford was severely Injurod. scHon FOR MAY EX-KLAN GOBLIN DENIED PLEA; MUST SIAND III ON SERIOUS CHARGE INDIANAPOLIS, April 16. Mo tions to fiuash five indictments re turned ngninut I. C Stephenson, for mer grnnd dragon of the Ku Kfcix Kbin. c hfirglng him with nn atta-k on Miss Madge Oberholtzer, were overruled today by J urine Jn mes A. Collins in criminal court. Stephen son, through his attorney, Kph In man, then eh tared a plea of not guilty. Miss Oberho'zer died Tuesday " ..... CONFESSES POISONING 3 CHILDREN Mrs.' Anna Cunningham Con fesses She Gave Poison to Children She Loved the Best Spared Daughter Be cause She Disliked Her Took Poison Herself. CROWN POINT. Ind.. April 16. Mrs. Anna Cunningham recovered from an apparont cataleptic state in the county jail today and for the first time since she was charged with the murder of her son Walter by poison ing and hor confession to poisoning three of hor children was placed alone in a cell. Hor preliminary hear ing has been Indefinitely postponed. CROWN l'OINT, Ind., April 16. (By Associated Press.) Calm nnd unmoved Mrs. Anna Cunningham, 49, confessed last night that sho gave poison to three of the five members of her family whoso mysterious deaths within six years led to an In vestigation, resulting In ft murder churgo against her. ' Tho victims Isahollo, 18; Charles 10 and Walter, 13, sho said sho had killed because sho loved thorn best. Sho believed she was going to die, sho said, and wanted to tako them with her to join their luther who'diou in 1018. For the samo reason she had jtven poison to David, tho Inst son, now In a critical condition in a Chicago hos pital. She denlod that sho had poisoned hor husband, the first to dlo, or Marry, another son, In whoso nony coroner's chemists found arsenic. Bho spared Mae, 19, surviving daughter, because she disliked her sho said. Each tlmo she administered the arsenic in bread and butter sho took a slmllnr doso herself nnd after the death of Walter sho added a teaspoon full of Iodine, hut always recovered. Her desire "to join in heaven ner husband nnd take with hor her best loved children had prompted her to administer tho death potion to lsn- bello. tho first victim, who dlod De cember 31, 1020. Tho confession of tho woman wno had remained unshnken under the questioning In Chicago of Prosecutors Robert E. Crowe and John Bbarbaro, who had obtained admissions of guilt from Nathan Leopold, Jr., and Rich ard Loob. was obtained by Sheriff Benjamin II. Strong nnd Miss Mau reen McKornan, Chicago newspaper reporter. During yesterday after she had re covered from a state of coma Into which, she had lapsed Tuesday, Mrs. Cunningham talked to Miss McKor nan and admitted that she might have placed somo arsenic in tho fond of David by mistake, but was stolid in i.nil that she had poisoned any membors of hor family. Sho permitted tho reporter to apply cold compresses to hor head and loosen hor clothing, appearing more Interested in chnnging hor best black silk dress for an apron than in her subsequent coldbloodod rocltal of the deaths. Suddenly sho asked that hor daugh ter Mae hi: sent for and that sho ho removed from hor cell because of tho presence thoro of several woman prisoners. Disregarding tho girl's frantic screams to remain sllont she detailed her story first to Sheriff Strong and later to a court roportcr. The daughter refused to romaln and liston to tho nccount of the deaths of hor brothers and was taken away. Sho also refused to romaln in .1 4..II nnv hni. nnlllf)l Htll'lni? IhO night and spont tho night at a hotel. When sho was asked to sign thB transcribed confession at 2:40 a. m.. today Mrs. Cunningham betrayed emotion for the first tlmo. She broke down and sobbed. after an Illness of two weeks attrib uted by her parents and by her phy sicians to poison taken following the alleged attack by Stephenson. An Inquest Into her death was continued today by County Coroner Ir. Paul K. Robinson and funeral services wero planned for this afternoon. Because- of a crowded calendar. Judge Collins Indicated It would be Impossible to trythe case before May 25. No date was fixed.